Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities.
She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges.
In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines.
Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.
Something inspirational: “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again ...
Food for thought: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” CARL ROGERS Acceptance doesn't mean we stop growing. It means understanding ourselves without judgement ...
Something inspirational: “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” VIRGINIA WOOLF Life isn't a race. There is no pressure to perform, compare or prove yourself. Just be 'you'. That's it.
I think many of us have very little exposure to a world outside our own thoughts. Our world view is often influenced by forced fed propaganda and isolation from inclusion.
But this quote prudently offers no excuses for a person's corrupt values or views; it examines the content of our character instead.
Thanks Tim. Yes I can see and understand why you would think that.
I have always believed that we are unconsciously aware, but consciously we choose not to expose ourselves to a world outside our own thoughts, primarily because we have too many things going on in our own lives to care.
Every now and again we are influenced by propaganda you talk about because we consciously tap into the media and what they have to say. I love this quote, because as you say it offers no excuses, but neither do I think we should. We live by excuses and will always find excuses, just so we don't have to face our realities.
Everything we do and say is a reflection of our character. If more of us understood that, we'd be more careful with what we say and how we say it.
It's so true that what we say speaks volumes about our character or feelings.
I know that I for one am very transparent as to what is happening to me at the moment. I wish I were more mysterious but actually feel that it's okay to be truthful.
I think many of us have very little exposure to a world outside our own thoughts. Our world view is often influenced by forced fed propaganda and isolation from inclusion.
But this quote prudently offers no excuses for a person's corrupt values or views; it examines the content of our character instead.
Thanks Tim. Yes I can see and understand why you would think that.
I have always believed that we are unconsciously aware, but consciously we choose not to expose ourselves to a world outside our own thoughts, primarily because we have too many things going on in our own lives to care.
Every now and again we are influenced by propaganda you talk about because we consciously tap into the media and what they have to say. I love this quote, because as you say it offers no excuses, but neither do I think we should. We live by excuses and will always find excuses, just so we don't have to face our realities.
Everything we do and say is a reflection of our character. If more of us understood that, we'd be more careful with what we say and how we say it.
Indeed, everything we say is a refection of our character, so people form an opinion about us based on what we say and how we say it, good or bad.
Thank you, yes you're right that's how it should be. If we want people to remember us fondly, we must put good things out there.
Our characters either work for us, or against us.
It's so true that what we say speaks volumes about our character or feelings.
I know that I for one am very transparent as to what is happening to me at the moment. I wish I were more mysterious but actually feel that it's okay to be truthful.
Thanks Maria, yes it does. It's also absolutely right to be truthful. Without truth we have nothing.
Truth is part of our integrity, which is everything in terms of our character and personality.